The vanishing of a tropical nation - Beyond Tiki

J joefla70 Tiki Socialite Fort Lauderdale Joined: Jan 17, 2005 Posts: 368	J joefla70 Posted posted on Mon, Apr 17, 2006 7:39 PM On 2006-04-14 10:31, GatorRob wrote: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/04/14/kiribati/index.html This is a heart breaking story of how rising seas caused by global warming are threatening to doom the entire South Pacific nation of Kiribati. Over 100,000 people living on the 33-island republic between Hawaii and Australia may be forced to flee the islands in the coming decades as the seas rise and threaten to make the entire island chain uninhabitable. It's a good read, but like I said, just breaks your heart about what we're doing to our planet. I don't pretend to be a scientist, but I saw a feature on the science channel the other day about the last ice age on earth and it said that the earth goes back and forth between periods of cooling and warming. Maybe we're just still headed away from the last ice age and at some point we will be heading back, with a gradual cooling down. I wonder if that is what is really going on.

On 2006-04-14 10:31, GatorRob wrote:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/04/14/kiribati/index.html

This is a heart breaking story of how rising seas caused by global warming are threatening to doom the entire South Pacific nation of Kiribati. Over 100,000 people living on the 33-island republic between Hawaii and Australia may be forced to flee the islands in the coming decades as the seas rise and threaten to make the entire island chain uninhabitable. It's a good read, but like I said, just breaks your heart about what we're doing to our planet.

I don't pretend to be a scientist, but I saw a feature on the science channel the other day about the last ice age on earth and it said that the earth goes back and forth between periods of cooling and warming. Maybe we're just still headed away from the last ice age and at some point we will be heading back, with a gradual cooling down. I wonder if that is what is really going on.

Post #227176 by joefla70 on Mon, Apr 17, 2006 7:39 PM